Ethyl acetate ketone

Polystyrene and copolymers Chloroform, ethyl acetate, ketones... 

The ketones are readily prepared, for example, acetophenone from benzene, acetyl chloride (or acetic anhydride) and aluminium chloride by the Friedel and Crafts reaction ethyl benzyl ketones by passing a mixture of phenylacetic acid and propionic acid over thoria at 450° and n-propyl- p-phenylethylketone by circulating a mixture of hydrocinnamic acid and n-butyric acid over thoria (for further details, see under Aromatic Ketones, Sections IV,136, IV,137 and IV,141). 

The acylation of ketones with esters an example of the Clalsen condensation is generally effected with a basic reagent, such as sodium ethoxide, sodium, sodamide or sodium hy dride. Thus acetone and ethyl acetate condense in the presence of sodium ethoxide to yield acetylacetone ... 

The preparation of benzoylacctone Is another example of the acylation of a ketone (acetophenone) by ethyl acetate to a p diketone (Claisen condensation compare preceding Section) ... 

Various 4-, 5-, or 4,5-disubstituted 2-aryIamino thiazoles (124), R, = QH4R with R = 0-, m-, or p-Me, HO C, Cl, Br, H N, NHAc, NR2, OH, OR, or OjN, were obtained by condensing the corresponding N-arylthiourea with chloroacetone (81, 86, 423), dichloroacetone (510, 618), phenacyichloride or its p-substituted methyl, f-butyl, n-dodecyl or undecyl (653), or 2-chlorocyclohexanone (653) (Method A) or with 2-butanone (423), acetophenone or its p-substituted derivatives (399, 439), ethyl acetate (400), ethyl acetyl propionate (621), a- or 3-unsaturated ketones (691), benzylidene acetone, furfurylidene acetone, and mesityl oxide in the presence of Btj or Ij as condensing agent (Method B) (Table 11-17). 

The Claisen condensation of an aliphatic ester and a thiazolic ester gives after acidic hydrolysis a thiazolylketone (56). For example, the Claisen condensation of ethyl 4-methyl-5-thiazolecarboxylate with ethyl acetate followed by acid hydrolysis gives methyl 4-methyl-5-thiazolyl ketone in 16% yield. 

Ketones and esters are required for C-type inks. Types of esters are ethyl acetate, isopropyl acetate, normal propyl acetate, and butyl acetate. From the ketone class, acetone or methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) can be used. The usual solvent for D-type inks are mixtures of an alcohol, such as ethyl alcohol or isopropyl alcohol, with either aUphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons. Commonly used mixtures are 50/50 blends by volume of alcohol and aUphatic hydrocarbon. 

The alcohols, proprietary denatured ethyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol, are commonly used for E-type inks. Many E-type inks benefit from the addition of small amounts of ethyl acetate, MEK, or normal propyl acetate to the solvent blends. Aromatic hydrocarbon solvents are used for M-type inks. Polystyrene resins are used to reduce the cost of top lacquers. T-type inks are also reduced with aromatic hydrocarbons. Acryflc resins are used to achieve specific properties for V-type inks. Vehicles containing vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate copolymer resins make up the vinyl ink category. Ketones are commonly used solvents for these inks. 

Pyrrohdinone (2-pyrrohdone, butyrolactam or 2-Pyrol) (27) was first reported in 1889 as a product of the dehydration of 4-aminobutanoic acid (49). The synthesis used for commercial manufacture, ie, condensation of butyrolactone with ammonia at high temperatures, was first described in 1936 (50). Other synthetic routes include carbon monoxide insertion into allylamine (51,52), hydrolytic hydrogenation of succinonitnle (53,54), and hydrogenation of ammoniacal solutions of maleic or succinic acids (55—57). Properties of 2-pyrrohdinone are Hsted in Table 2. 2-Pyrrohdinone is completely miscible with water, lower alcohols, lower ketones, ether, ethyl acetate, chloroform, and benzene. It is soluble to ca 1 wt % in aUphatic hydrocarbons. 

Addition compounds form with those organics that contain a donor atom, eg, ketonic oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur. Thus, adducts form with amides, amines, and A/-heterocycles, as well as acid chlorides and ethers. Addition compounds also form with a number of inorganic compounds, eg, POCl (6,120). In many cases, the addition compounds are dimeric, eg, with ethyl acetate, in titanium tetrachloride-rich systems. By using ammonia, a series of amidodichlorides, Ti(NH2) Cl4, is formed (133). 

Acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone, dimethylformamide, ethyl acetate, and tetrahydrofuran are solvents for vinyhdene chloride polymers used in lacquer coatings methyl ethyl ketone and tetrahydrofuran are most extensively employed. Toluene is used as a diluent for either. Lacquers prepared at 10—20 wt % polymer sohds in a solvent blend of two parts ketone and one part toluene have a viscosity of 20—1000 mPa-s (=cP). Lacquers can be prepared from polymers of very high vinyhdene chloride content in tetrahydrofuran—toluene mixtures and stored at room temperature. Methyl ethyl ketone lacquers must be prepared and maintained at 60—70°C or the lacquer forms a sohd gel. It is critical in the manufacture of polymers for a lacquer apphcation to maintain a fairly narrow compositional distribution in the polymer to achieve good dissolution properties. 

Ghlorohydrination with Nonaqueous Hypochlorous Acid. Because the presence of chloride ions has been shown to promote the formation of the dichloro by-product, it is desirable to perform the chlorohydrination in the absence of chloride ion. For this reason, methods have been reported to produce hypochlorous acid solutions free of chloride ions. A patented method (48) involves the extraction of hypochlorous acid with solvents such as methyl ethyl ketone [78-93-3J, acetonitrile, and ethyl acetate [141-78-6J. In one example hypochlorous acid was extracted from an aqueous brine with methyl ethyl ketone in a 98.9% yield based on the chlorine used. However, when propylene reacted with a 1 Af solution of hypochlorous acid in either methyl ethyl ketone or ethyl acetate, chlorohydrin yields of only 60—70% were obtained (10). 

Several examples of cost-effective liquid-hquid extraction processes include the recovery of acetic acid from water (Fig. 15-1), using ethyl ether or ethyl acetate as described by Brown [Chem. Eng. Prog., 59(10), 6.5 (1963)], or the recoveiy of phenolics from water as described by Lauer, Littlewood, and Butler [7/Steel Eng., 46(5), 99 (1969)] with butyl acetate, or with isopropyl ether as described by Wurm [Gliickauf, 12, 517 (1968)], or with methyl isobutyl ketone as described by Scheibel [ Liqmd-Liquid Extraction, in Periy Weiss-... 

The present preparation illustrates a general and convenient irethod for ring contraction of cyclic ketones. The first step is the usual procedure for the preparation of enamines. The second step involves 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of diphenyl phosphorazidate to an enamine followed by ring contraction with evolution of nitrogen. Ethyl acetate and tetrahydrofuran can be used as a solvent in place of toluene. Pyrrolidine enamines from various cyclic ketones smoothly undergo the reaction under similar reaction conditions. Diphenyl (cycloalkyl-1-pyrrolidinylmethylene)phosphoramidates with 5,6,7, and 15 members in the ring have been prepared in yields of 68-76%. 

Water with aniline, benzene, benzyl alcohol, carbon disulfide, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, cyclohexane, cyclohexanol, cyclohexanone, diethyl ether, ethyl acetate, isoamyl alcohol, methyl ethyl ketone, nitromethane, tributyl phosphate or toluene. 

Solvents. NBRs are soluble in aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons, ketones, esters and nitroparaffin compounds. Solvents with high evaporation rate are acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, chloroform and ethyl acetate, among others. Solvents with slow evaporation rate are nitromethane, dichloropentenes, chloro-toluene, butyl acetate and methyl isobutyl ketone. 

Ergometrine crystallises, with solvent, from benzene in needles or from methyl ethyl ketone in prisms both forms have m.p. 162-3° (dec.). From ethyl acetate it crystallises at — 4° in thin, solvent-free plates, m.p. 160-1° (dec.), and at atmospheric temperature on concentration in vacuo in diamond-shaped plates, B.0-5EtAc, m.p. 130-2° (dec.), from which the combined solvent is not removed at 100° in vacuo. By crystallisation from acetone, Grant and Smith obtained a second form in long needles, m.p. 212° (dec.), which appears to be the more stable, since the form, m.p. 162-3°, tends to pass into it on keeping. Ergometrine has [o]d — 44° (CHCI3) - - 42-2° or + 62-6° (c = 1-7, EtOH) or... 

The crude ketal from the Birch reduction is dissolved in a mixture of 700 ml ethyl acetate, 1260 ml absolute ethanol and 31.5 ml water. To this solution is added 198 ml of 0.01 Mp-toluenesulfonic acid in absolute ethanol. (Methanol cannot be substituted for the ethanol nor can denatured ethanol containing methanol be used. In the presence of methanol, the diethyl ketal forms the mixed methyl ethyl ketal at C-17 and this mixed ketal hydrolyzes at a much slower rate than does the diethyl ketal.) The mixture is stirred at room temperature under nitrogen for 10 min and 56 ml of 10% potassium bicarbonate solution is added to neutralize the toluenesulfonic acid. The organic solvents are removed in a rotary vacuum evaporator and water is added as the organic solvents distill. When all of the organic solvents have been distilled, the granular precipitate of 1,4-dihydroestrone 3- methyl ether is collected on a filter and washed well with cold water. The solid is sucked dry and is dissolved in 800 ml of methyl ethyl ketone. To this solution is added 1600 ml of 1 1 methanol-water mixture and the resulting mixture is cooled in an ice bath for 1 hr. The solid is collected, rinsed with cold methanol-water (1 1), air-dried, and finally dried in a vacuum oven at 60° yield, 71.5 g (81 % based on estrone methyl ether actually carried into the Birch reduction as the ketal) mp 139-141°, reported mp 141-141.5°. The material has an enol ether assay of 99%, a residual aromatics content of 0.6% and a 19-norandrost-5(10)-ene-3,17-dione content of 0.5% (from hydrolysis of the 3-enol ether). It contains less than 0.1 % of 17-ol and only a trace of ketal formed by addition of ethanol to the 3-enol ether. 

It is noteworthy that treatment of the 9(ll)-dehydro steroid (50) with nitrosyl fluoride in ethyl acetate at 50° affords after chromatography a 20% yield of the A hi2-ketone. ... 

Bromo-4-methoxy-A-homo-estra-2,4,5(10)-trien-17-one (44 0. 2g), is dissolved in formic acid, 2 ml of boron trifluoride etherate is added and the mixture is stirred vigorously at 0° for 2 hr. A brown mass ca. 0.12 g) is obtained after evaporation of the solvents at reduced pressure. This material is diluted with water and extracted with chloroform. The chloroform extracts are washed successively with water and saturated salt solution, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and evaporated at reduced pressure to give 95 mg of a product which is purified by filtration through a column of neutral alumina and crystallization of the residue after evaporation of the solvent from ethyl acetate-petroleum ether. The resulting A-homo-estra-l(10),2,4a-triene-4,17-dione (45), mp 143-146°, is identical to the tropone (45) prepared from monoadduct 17-ketone (43a). 

A-Homo-estra-, 4, )-triene-3, l-dione (50). A solution of bromo ketone (49 0.2 g), silver perchlorate (0.5 g) and 20% aqueous acetone (30 ml) is heated at reflux with stirring for 30 min and then allowed to cool to room temperature. The mixture is filtered to remove precipitated silver bromide (ca. 0.19 g) and the filtrate is diluted with water (200 ml) and then extracted with chloroform. The chloroform extracts are washed, successively with water, 5% sodium bicarbonate solution, water and saturated salt solution. After being dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, the solvents are removed at reduced pressure to give a solid. Recrystallization from ethyl acetate gives A-homo-estra-l,4,5(10)-triene-3,17-dione (50 0.17 g) mp 193-197°. 

Ethyl acetoacetate (acetoacetic ester), available by the Claisen condensation of ethyl acetate, has properties that make it a useful starting material for the preparation of ketones. These properties are... 

The formation of ethyl acetoacetate occurs, according- to Claisen, in four steps. The presence of a small quantity of alcohol gives lise to sodium ethylate, which forms an additive compound with ethyl acetate. The latter unites with a second molecule of ethyl acetate yielding the sodium salt of ethyl acetoacetate, and splitting off alcohol, which reacts with fresh metallic sodium. The sodium salt on acidifying passes into the tautomeric (ketonic) form of acetoacetic ester. 

Workers at Lilly prepared the oxazole-containing, dual PPAR ot/y agonist 23, through Robinson-Gabriel cyclodehydration of ketone 22 with acetic anhydride and sulfuric acid in refluxing ethyl acetate. ... 

A similar synthesis starting with l-(2-nitrobenzyl)pyrrol-2-aldehyde used ethanol-ethyl acetate as solvent (62). Indoles are prepared in excellent yield by hydrogenation of o-nitrobenzyl ketones over Pd-on-C (i). Azaindoles are correspondingly prepared from nitropyridines (97). 

The salts of 3-acetyl-18/3-glycyrrhetinic acid can be prepared by reaction between 3-acetyl-18/3-glycyrrhetinic acid and an aluminum alcohoiate. Preferably lower alcoholates are used, i.e., alcoholates in which the alkoxy group or groups have from one to four carbon atoms. The salification reaction may be carried out at room temperature or at an elevated temperature in conventional fashion, preferably in the presence of organic solvents. As organic solvents may be used alcohols, ethers, ketones, chlorinated solvents (methylene chloride, chloroform) ethyl acetate, etc. 

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